Hiphop Lesson...What is a Backpacker..

Its become cliche on the internet to label any MC or fan said MC with any type of lyrical skill/talent a backpacker.

It originally stemmed from b boys carrying there krylon spray-paint cans in book-bags to carry when they tagged the subway..wall... etc..

In terms of MC's and Rappers it was comically and wrongly became popular when this dropped...

the video had them carrying book bags etc thus the term backpack rapper was born...

Boot Camp Click was the group credtited with being branded with that name...the same crew that has Sean Price Smiff N Wessun backpackers word on what planet?...

Somehow Slaughterhouse both as a group and individual are labeled as backpackers wtf..that only because they actually can rap...based on content far from it...anyone saying they are cleary dont know what the fuck they are talking about.

Overtime it rightfully labeled to MC's who are the socially conscious and/underground or straight up nerd rap.

That Can-OX song is dope, I think Questlove named Iron Galaxy album of the year when that came out, it was praised as a "sonic masterpiece" because of the El-P production, the instrumentals on that were bonkerz.

People were calling that backpack, but DEF JUX was Hip Hop then, they consistently put out dope shit, had a strong Hip Hop foundation, that was a dope Indy and the other half of Company Flow Big Juss started Subverse which was also dope, but faded quick.

If you didn't have a copy of Funcrusher Plus, you were doing something wrong.

When I think pretentious nerd, "I'm more Hip Hop than Hip Hop" rap, Anticon and Sage Francis are at the top of the list, just by default, they have some faggots for fans, "I heard this bitch at Rock the Bells trying to tell someone Sage Francis was like a rapper who rapped poetry" or some dumb shit, sounded racist and naive as fuck, people wen't on to clone his style, by no fault of his own he became this iconoclast that helped validate nerd faggot YT's that would only listen to that "type of rap" and otherwise had no involvement with Hip Hop, but were quick to tell you what Hip Hop was.

I'm not sure who I hate more them or the faggots who just carry backpacks for fun or to match an outfit now.

If you caught me with a backpack, back when, I had records, books and sketch pads, was on a mission with spraypaint or I was moving work around, my back pack would have got me football numbers.

Baccpackers are geeks who listen to distant relatives,lupe fiasco and mf doom they walk around wit spray cans in their baccpacks and notebooks wit all the words past the margins,they randomly bust out and start freestyling and sit on rooftops listening to mixtapes like illmatic and albums like resurrection

People of this ilk are almost obsolete they have migrated to hip hop forums and have 10,000 + posts

People who wear backpacks. But with the responses here I see its a term to describe how posters on here act. Like people havin fun listenin to whatever and somebody in the corner like "please dont like that." These people are disregarded and only provide entertainment. People laugh at them not with them.

Yo, some of the most arrogant, stuck up fans you'll ever come a cross....I dont know whats worst them or these bang in the whip and clubs type fans....My boy is on that backpack shyt and is one of the most fair weather fans, let one of them cats do a record with a popular rapper, and its over sun is no longer a fan...Cat hates Nas because Nas isnt on his 12th Illmatic...lol